The very 🥱 boring ways I use AI

Published about 1 month ago • 2 min read

This week: Everyone's talking about the ways they are revolutionizing their lives with AI. Turns out a great deal of them are lying. This week, I pull back the curtain on the very boring ways I use AI in my business. Hint: It focuses a lot less on speed and a lot more on nurturing relationships.

Hi Reader

This week I stumbled across a great article about how content creators are now essentially ​​lying about how they use AI​​. All that revolutionizing? Not so much.

This isn't really a surprise to anyone who works with AI regularly, but I guess “Wow, look at all the stuff I can do with AI” gets more clicks than “Here are the boring ways AI helps my business.”

So, if you're feeling “behind” on AI, I thought you'd like to see the flip side. Learn the very boring ways I use AI to manage my business—especially my business relationships.

How I Use AI In My Business

I use very few full automations. Instead, I build and deploy a whole list of very small business engines. Each handles one specific task on demand. Nothing fancy. But they keep the little things from falling through the cracks so I can focus on the big picture.

For example, one engine is tasked with scanning my Notion-based CRM and sending me a note if I fall behind on outreach. (Boy, that one can get annoying).

Learn more about my little engines here: How I Use AI in My Business: Less Complexity, More Relationships:

Monica

PS: My first AI cohort, starting October 6, is slowly filling up. If you want to learn how to add AI to your business strategy, scroll down. Seats are filling up fast and early bird pricing ends on Tuesday.

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What I'm Reading

🔵 What Made AI Researchers Freak Out—The ‘Incident’ In Plain English — The agents were given a goal and boundaries for how to achieve it. When those came into conflict, they ignored the boundaries and pursued the goal. [Forbes]

🟢 As campaign season gears up, AI-generated ads are everywhere —Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political ad spending found that so far this year, at least 164 political ads nationwide were produced or enhanced by AI. [NPR]

🔴 These Tech Workers Were Laid Off in an ‘AI Transformation.’ Their Revenge? Building an AI That Replaces Executives — A small startup is creating an AI CEO that ‘never sleeps’ and ‘never asks for a raise. [Inc.]

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This live, four-week cohort is designed for executives, founders, and business leaders who want to use AI to create meaningful progress in their business —without losing their competitive advantage.

The cohort is already half full and the participant list is shaping up to be a fun group of pros!

HURRY: The early bird rate of $399 expires next Tuesday, Sep. 22. So if you want to get the best deal, grab your seat now.

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